Archive for Miguel A. Faria Jr.

From Pathology to Politics: Public Health in America

From Pathology to Politics, by economists James T. Bennett and Thomas J. DiLorenzo, is a serious, eye-opening indictment of America’s public-health establishment. Bennett and DiLorenzo mark the release of the federal government’s Kerner Report of 1968 as the point when the public-health establishment (PHE), incarnated in the American Public Health Association (APHA), crossed its Rubicon [...]

1Jan2002 | | 0 comments | Continued

The Tainted Public-Health Model of Gun Control

Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes? —Juvenal Early in the 1990s the American Medical Association (AMA) launched a major campaign against domestic violence, which continues to this day. As a concerned physician, neurosurgeon, and then an active member of organized medicine, I joined in what I considered a worthwhile cause. It was then that I arrived [...]

1Apr2001 | | 6 comments | Continued

National Gun Registration: The Road to Tyranny

Miguel A. Faria Jr., M.D., is the editor-in-chief of Medical Sentinel, the journal of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, and author of Vandals at the Gates of Medicine: Historic Perspectives on the Battle Over Health Care Reform (1995) and Medical Warrior: Fighting Corporate Socialized Medicine (Hacienda Publishing Inc., 1997, www.haciendapub.com). Georg Hegel (1770-1831), [...]

1Mar2001 | | 0 comments | Continued

Psychiatry in a Communist Utopia

Miguel Faria, Jr., M.D., is editor-in-chief of the Medical Sentinel, published by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, and author of Medical Warrior: Fighting Corporate Socialized Medicine. I recently read a book that should shock freedom-loving and civil-liberty-loving readers, even the libertarians, Objectivists, and Americans of other political persuasions who (thanks to Dr. Thomas [...]

1Nov2000 | | 2 comments | Continued

The Nazi War on Cancer

This is a deeply disturbing book for it describes in a good light what the author calls the “lesser-known ‘flipside’ of fascism–the side that gave us struggles against smoking, campaigns for cleaner food and water, for exercise and preventive medicine.” The Nazi “accomplishments” include the establishment of medical registries (that is, databases) and medical surveillance, [...]

1Oct2000 | | 0 comments | Continued

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